Model railways - marshalling your train for the right time in history

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[grahame]

Building a model railway - could you run a Dukedog hauling a load of dogfish and a toad?  How about a Western Diesel on the front of a rake of Mk 5 carriages?   Could a class 101 unit be seen at the same time as class 195?

To help modellers get it right (or embarrass them into buying more models that are right together, the rail modelling companies describe three products by eras;  I've put this with examples into a GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) context

Era	Name	Years	Example
1	Pioneering	1804 - 1869	North Star 2-2-2
2	Pre-Grouping	1870 - 1922	Lode Star 4-6-0
3	Grouping	1923 - 1947	Pendennis Castle 4-6-0
4	Early British Railways	1948 - 1956	County of Dorset 4-6-0
5	Late British Railways	1956 - 1968	Evening Star 2-10-0
6	British Rail Pre-Tops	1957 - 1971	D821 Greyhound
7	British Rail Tops	1971 - 1986	Brush 47
8	BR▸ (British Rail(ways)) Sectorisation	1982 - 1997	HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units))
9	Privatisation	1996 - 2008	Thames Turbo▸ (Class 165 and 166 trains used on Thames Valley services)
10	Network Franchising	2006 - 2017	Same Ole Trains
11	Present Day	2014 on	IET▸ (Intercity Express Train - replacement for HSTs (manufactured by Hitachi in Kobe, Japan))

[Chris from Nailsea]

Ah, yes.  Thanks, grahame. 

"Pioneering ... 1804", anyone?

CfN^▸ (Chris from Nailsea, an administrator on this forum).

[ray951]

Building a model railway - could you run a Dukedog hauling a load of dogfish and a toad?  How about a Western Diesel on the front of a rake of Mk 5 carriages?   Could a class 101 unit be seen at the same time as class 195?

Doesn't Model Railways Rule 1 apply - namely "It's my railway, so I can run what I like." 

[grahame]

Ah, yes.  Thanks, grahame. 

"Pioneering ... 1804", anyone?

CfN^▸ (Chris from Nailsea, an administrator on this forum).

Bit of a compromise ... got to start somewhere. Wikipedia tells me

The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway, situated in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway, run by volunteers from The Middleton Railway Trust Ltd. since 1960.

Originally built under an act of Parliament, the Oystermouth Railway or Tramroad Act 1804, to move limestone from the quarries of Mumbles to Swansea and to the markets beyond, it carried the world's first fare-paying railway passengers under an agreement effective from 25 March 1807

[Chris from Nailsea]

Thanks again, grahame.

I was thinking more along the lines (pun intended!) of one of my heroes - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick

1804 - see image here.

CfN^▸ (Chris from Nailsea, an administrator on this forum).

[bobm]

For those model rail enthusiasts who are also philatelists, Royal Mail are bringing out a set of stamps on the 19th February celebrating Hornby Hobbies. 

[TonyN]

Could a class 101 unit be seen at the same time as class 195?

I saw a 101 and a 172 moving on adjacent tracks at Kidderminster when I was working there on Sunday. 196s are frequent there as well.